Democrats are leaning back into the Clinton-era law-and-order vibes; they constantly touted Harris’s record as a prosecutor, trotted out in-uniform officers to give speeches on the final night, and did a complete 180 in their party platform to ramp up funding for police. There was even a moment in Harris’s introduction video when a Republican prosecutor from California said Harris was the person “who built the foundation for how we do criminal justice in America today” — an absurd overstatement and something that no Democrat would have wanted within touching distance of them just a few years ago.
